Mechanism for dividing laminated material.



'1. P. WRIGHL MECHANISIVI FOR DIVIDING LAMINATED MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FLED NOV. 24,1914.

Patented De@ 4,1917.

2 SHE`ETS-SHEET 1.

J. P. WRIGHT.

MECHANISM FOR DIVIDING LAMINATED MATERIAL.l APPLICATION FILED Nov. V24. I9I4.

I Patented Dec. 4,1917. J 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- ITACB ll?. WRIGHT, OF BARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COM'l PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A, CORPORATIN 0F ILLINOIS.v

MECHANISM FOR DlilIiII-UG LAI'JIINATED MATERIAL.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. t, 191'?.

Application flied November 24, 19M. Serial No 873,677.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Barberton, in the county of Summit and Sta-te of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Mechanism for Dividing Laminated Material, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for making sectional sheet material, having referencev more especially to machines whereby a continuous series of strips of rigid material, 'such as veneer, in end spaced relation to each other, are lined or coated on their respective sides with. frangible fabric, such as thin paper, and the thus lined and connected strips are successively separated from Veach other by incising or severing the lining transversely through the junction spaces between the stripsql l My invention particularly concerns the dividing `or severing of the laminated material, and it has for its object to provide y for this purpose a vnovel mechanism under the control ofthe traveling material, which mechanism combines simplicity and durability of construction with certainty and precision of operation, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

1n the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation, of a portion of a veneer and paper laminatingmachine equipped with a dividing or severing meehanism embodying the preferred form of my.

invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1, showing feeding and severing mechanisms for a plurality of webs of material traveling abreast.

Fig. 3v i's an elevation of the severing mechanism and adjuncts, showing the parts in the position which they occupy when the cutter head is locked.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section, as on the line 4-1 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a vertical section, 'as on the line 5-5 of Fig. V3, but showing the cutter head as unlocked and the cutter thereof as severingthe web.

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section, enlarged, of a portion 'of the sectionalsheet material.

10 designates a part of the main frame of the machine; and 11 upperV *and lower rows of hollow drying rolls suitably journaled. in bearings on theframe andrespectively driven in the directions indica-ted by the adjacent arrows, preferably through the agency of a positively-driven double sprocket chain 11a which co-acts with suitably-disposed intermeshing wheels 11b on the shafts of the, rolls.

rihe improved dividing or severing mechanism is arranged at the rear of the machine in operative relation to the upper ro ls.

The web of material, comprising, for eX- ample, strips of veneer (a) endwise separated and coated on their upper and lower sides with thin paper' (7)), travels along the upper drying' rolls to and through the cutting mechanism and is progressively divided by the latter into sections lengthwise defined by the frangible junction spaces between succeeding strips of veneer. (See Fig. 6). These sections are delivered to a belt at the rear of the machine and thereby carried rearward, thence they are returned by the belt to and fed between the upper and lower rolls which thereupon in their rotation, as indicated, carry the sections forward to a convenient point of discharge. As the belt just mentioned may be of any known or approved character itis deemed unnecessary to show 0r describe the same. Referring particularly to the form of severing mechanism herein illustrated, 13 designates a shaft which is journaled in bearings in a bridge frame 14 which spans the main frame. rFhe shaft 13, which is arranged 'directly above and parallel to the shaft of one of the drying rollers 11, at the rear of the machine, is provided with a gear wheel 15 in mesh with a gear wheel 16 on the shaft of the adjacent drying roller, the shaft 13 thus being positively driven. A cutter head or support 17 is loosely mounted between two spaced collars 18, 19 fast on the shaft. Between the collar 18 and the opposing end of the head 17 is a ring 20 which is yieldingly forced toward the head by means of compression springs 21 encircling ring-.guide pins 22 in the collar 18, a washer 23 being preferably interposed between the collar and the head. Thus the head has a friction or slip connection with its shaft.

The head 17 is split longitudinally to receive a thin cutter blade 24- which extends from end to end of the head and which blade in length. slightly exceeds the width `of the.

. head by bolts 26, the holes for which in the blade are elongated in order that the blade may be longitudinally adjusted on the head to insure proper registry of the teeth of the blade with the circumferential grooves of the proximate lower roller 11.

VOn one end of the head 17 is adjustably secured by means of a clamp-screw 27 a split collar 28 which is provided with a radial projection 29 into and from the rotary path of which is movable a stop pawl 30 pivoted to a bracket on the frame 31. The pawl is normally held beyond the path of the projection by means of a retracting spring 32 Awhich is secured to the pawl and to an arm 33 fast on the frame. Formed on or secured to the pawl is a foot 3st which overhangs the path of and bears upon the upper surface of the laminated web, such foot being preferably provided with an anti-friction roller 35, and a suitable backer bar 36 for the web beingarranged beneath the roller and being provided with a suitable cavity 36a thereunder. When this roller is bearing upon the stable portion of the web the nose of the pawl is held, in opposition to the action of the spring, in the path of the stop 29,

vthereby through the slip connection described, preventing the cutter head from turning with the shaft 13. Vhen, however, the junction space (c) between adjoining strips passes between the roller and the cavity in the bar 36 the spring 32 presses the roller into such space and thus retracts the pawl from the stop. Thereupon the cutter head and its cutter are rotated by and with the shaft, the lmovement of the cutter and the travel ofthe web being so coordinated that the cutter enters the portions of the paper between the adjoining ends of the successive veneer strips, the teeth of the cutter meshing with the grooved periphery of the underlying roller 25 which constitutes, in effect, a backer for the cutter. The saw-like teeth of the cutter aie thus caused to pene- Y trate and nearly sever the web in the spaces between successive strips of veneer, the pe- .vriodical action-of the cutter, as will'be apparent, being automatically determined by the junction spaces between successive sections of material, irrespective of the uniformity or variableness in length of the seetions.

Rearward of the cutter head is a roller gresses to and between the rollers after the web has been acted upon by the cutter, the increased tension on the web thereupon com pletely rupturing the latter across its weakened junction portion.

I preferably provide forwardly of the cutter head a feed roller 39 which eoacts with the underlying drying roller to feed the web positively to the cutting path, suitable edge guide strips 40 for the web being conveniently supported immediately in advance of the feed roller.

I claim- 1. In a machine for severing a web composed of sections of veneer endwise separated and coated on their upper and lower sides with paper, a cutter for severing the paper through the spaces between succeeding sections, a support for said cutter, mechanism for operating said support, locking and releasing connections between said support and its operating mechanism, an clement adjacent the cutter support for controlling the active and idle conditions of said connections, and means tending to press said element against the surface of the web, whereby when said element is riding upon the surface of the web overlying the veneer sections the said connectionsv are idle and when said element rides upon the unsupported surfaces between suceeeding sections said element is depressed and the connections rendered active.

2. In a machine for severing successively spaced and connected sections of sheet material,l a cutter, a support therefor, a continuously driven element upon which said support is mounted, a friction drive connection between the said element and the support, and nie-ans for periodically interrupting the operation of said connection, said means including a controlling element adapted to ride upon and be positioned by the opposing surface of the stock.

3. In a machine for severing successively spaced and connected sections of sheet material, a cutter, a support therefor, a continuously driven shaft upon which said support is mounted, a friction drive connection between the shaft and the support, a projection on said support, a stop pawl adjacent the projection and means normally holding said pawl in the path of the projection, said pawl having a portion adapted to ride upon and be positioned by the opposing surface of the material.

4. In a machine for severing successively spaced and connected sections of sheet material, the combination with a ioller having continuous teeth-like serrations around its periphery, of a cutter support above said roller, a cutter blade on said support having its functional edge serrated correspondingly with Suid roller, a continuously driven element upon which said support is mounted, e friction drive connection between the said element and the Support, und means for periodically interrupting the operation of said connection, said means including a controlling element adapted to ride upon and be positioned by the opposing surface of the l@ stock.

Signed at Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, this 21st day of November, A. D. 1914.

JACOB P. WRlGHT. lfitnesses V. A. JOHNSTON, E. A. JACOBS.

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